Guinea fowl

jdivision

bought a guinea fowl today in Dunnes, small posters in the shop said they were doing some specialist meats now. Anyway took it home and cooked it as packaging suggested and found it hadn't cooked properly around the legs so took legs off and banged them back into the oven. The thing is that I found three abcesses (?) on what was obviously a fairly small bird - two on the legs and one near the rear end. Presumably this means they were battery farmed? Won't bother again if it's that's the case. Meat was fine but not the depth of flavour I expected.

CJhaughey

I got one in dunnes as well, I found the flavour very good, like old fashioned chicken.
I had no issues with it apart from it being not big enough, I would cook two next time.
I am not sure that guinea fowl are battery farmed usually they run quite wild.
The ones that Dunnes have are french birds or at least that is what the pack indicated.

jdivision

Yeah, I thought they were relatively wild too but given what I found inside I was wondering if the French are now battery rearing them. They were reduced to e3.75 in my local Dunnes, down from nearly a tenner so not bad value although the bird's obviously mainly bones after I removed meat etc around abcesses:)